Essential amino acid sensing, signaling, and transport in the regulation of human muscle protein metabolism

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 83-88

  Dickinson, Jared M ^a   Rasmussen, Blake B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid transporters; MTORC1; Protein synthesis

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1; MUSCLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HUMAN; MUSCLE ATROPHY; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

AMINO ACIDS, ESSENTIAL; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; HUMANS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 79851515753     PISSN: 13631950     EISSN: 14736519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCO.0b013e3283406f3e     Document Type: Article

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